Tremaine So­ca Warn­er and Zahra Gor­don

What to get Mom for Moth­er's Day is a co­nun­drum that faces chil­dren and spous­es every year.

Long gone are the days of giv­ing ce­ram­ic or­na­ments, stuffed toys and oth­er nov­el­ty gifts be­cause to­day's many of to­day's moth­ers are hip and in­to the lat­est trends.

Here are a few sug­ges­tions as to what might be ap­pro­pri­ate for the mod­ern moth­er.

Tech

Cell­phone mount

Dash­board or wind­shield mounts for cell­phones can make great gifts for the busy work­ing moth­er or for moms who spend a lot of time trans­port­ing their chil­dren to and from ac­tiv­i­ties. Many of these cell­phone mounts are ad­justable to hold dif­fer­ent types of smart­phones, iPods and oth­er hand­held de­vices. Ben­e­fits in­clude re­duced dis­trac­tions while dri­ving as well as easy ac­cess to mu­sic or movies which can al­so en­ter­tain pas­sen­gers. Avail­able at most elec­tron­ic stores.

Smart­phones

Mums who have to jug­gle work, home life and per­son­al time a smart phone could help them stay or­gan­ised and have easy ac­cess to so­cial me­dia breaks through­out the day. Apart from e-mail, alarms and cal­en­dar re­minders, there are thou­sands of ap­pli­ca­tions mums can down­load from mag­a­zines to calo­rie coun­ters. Check out the Sam­sung S4, the iPhone or even the BLU Stu­dio 5.3.

Sport

Trendy gym bag

Why not re­place mom's old-fash­ioned black duf­fle bag with a more styl­ish one that can hold all her fit­ness gear? Fash­ion­able gym bags are now avail­able in many bright colours with large com­part­ments and bot­tle hold­ers. Some even fea­ture a net­ted win­dow pock­et which can hold sweaty clothes or sneak­ers af­ter gym ses­sions.

http://www.igreenspot.com

Bare­foot shoes

If your mum moves around a lot, stands on her feet for long hours or is an avid jog­ger or fit­ness junkie then a pair of "five fin­ger" or "bare­foot" run­ning shoes may be the ide­al gift. Five fin­ger run­ning shoes are de­signed to fit the foot like a glove for a more nat­ur­al move­ment.

Au­to

Car care kit

An­oth­er great gift idea for mom is a kit con­tain­ing all the prod­ucts need­ed to give her car a fresh­ly de­tailed show­room fin­ish. These kits, which are as­sem­bled by pro­fes­sion­als, con­tain every­thing from pol­ish and wax to tyre and trim dress­ing and are al­so equipped with dif­fer­ent wax ap­pli­ca­tors and ac­ces­sories. Mom doesn't have to be an au­to­mo­tive ex­pert to keep her car in show­room con­di­tion.

Car seat cov­ers

If the stereo is above your price range, then car seat cov­ers make a much less ex­pen­sive Moth­er's Day gift. Not on­ly can you cus­tomise the cov­ers with your mum's favourite colours or by etch­ing her name on­to it, car seat cov­ers al­so pro­tect mum's up­hol­stery from stains

HD up­grade

For mums with cars, an ide­al Moth­er's Day gift may be an up­grade for their ra­dio decks. Why not get mum a touch­screen car stereo re­ceiv­er with DVD play­er and high de­f­i­n­i­tion ra­dio. The re­ceiv­er al­so in­cludes Blue­tooth tech­nol­o­gy for hands-free call­ing and can play­back CDs and Mp3s. Try the Sony mod­el IC­SX7HD (with a sev­en-inch screen) or the Pi­o­neer AVH (with a six-inch screen)